People Friday February 9, 2024
While you’re watching Super Bowl ads on Sunday, a lot of photographers will be working their tails off. People magazine recently talked with Emily Curiel of the Kansas City Star (who’ll arrive at Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium with three camera bodies, a card reader, memory cards and various lenses) and Heather Krut, a technical specialist with Canon who will be be handing out loaned gear from the Canon Professional Services room to photographers from Getty Images, the NFL Network, and 49ers official photographer Terrell Lloyd and his team.
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International Garden Photographer of the Year Friday February 9, 2024
Photographer June Sharpe is the top prize winner of the 17th International Garden Photographer of the Year competition for her image “Birdscape,” an abstract view of layered branches of a conifer. In post-processing, Sharpe enhanced what she describes as a "sense of the 'birds' dancing in a fantasy woodland,” notes the BBC. Launched in 2007, the contest is now run in association with the UK’s Royal Botanic Gardens. An exhibition of winning work is on view at Kew Gardens, a botanic garden in southwest London, though March 10.
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DIYPhotography Friday February 9, 2024
Zeiss’s newly announced entry-level cinema lenses, the Zeiss Nano Primes, are available in 18mm, 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 75mm and 100mm version, all with bright T1.5 maximum apertures, notes DIY Photography. The lenses are designed specifically for use with mirrorless cameras with a short flange distance—initially, the set is being released for Sony E mount, but Zeiss says that a user-swappable mount means others in the future. The primes are designed to match the look of Zeiss’ Supreme prime lenses, but at a more approachable cost. Still, the set of six lenses will set customers back $25,950, adds PetaPixel.
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J. Paul Getty Museum Friday February 9, 2024
During his first decade as an emergent professional in the New York photography world, from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, Arthur Tress evolved from the tradition of social documentary to a bold new approach drawing inspiration from the inner worlds of fantasies, daydreams, and nightmares, notes the J. Paul Getty Museum, which hosts the exhibition "Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams and Shadows” through Feb. 18. It’s the first exhibition to chronicle the early career of Tress, who, adds Hyperallergic, turned dreams into a fertile artistic vision.
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